GEC Authors

In Sustainable Gardening for the Southeast, GEC Steering Committee member and book author Susan Varlamoff pulls together science-based information from Southern land-grant universities on various aspects of environmentally friendly gardening.

Career Marine officer and F/A-18 pilot with extensive experience in land-based and sea-based operations. Unique experience as a strategist developing national level strategies for the United States Marine Corps, Special Operations, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Professional goal is to continue to contribute within the national security community to the development of a national strategy to carry the United States into the 21st Century and beyond. Specialties:F/A-18 pilot with extensive experience in air and ground fires planning and integration, MAGTF command and control, aircraft carrier operations, and expeditionary operations. Educated and experienced in national security issues and strategy development.

The New Grand Strategy describes a business plan for America, born at the Pentagon, that embeds sustainability as a strategic national imperative.

It tells how a discipline called “grand strategy” has been used in the past to align our economy, foreign policy and governance structures to take on the big challenges of the day, such as fighting fascism or containing communism.

The book lays out a plan that leverages the economy to do the heavy lifting, tapping trillion-dollar demand for walkable communities, regenerative agriculture and resource productivity.

It is an inspiring vision of what’s possible when Americans hold a collective view of the future and come together to bring it to reality.

The plan combines the best of the Left and Right — a progressive agenda with a conservative approach, lead by business for profit, tapping local business and political leadership — and Washington can lead, follow or get out of the way.

The New Grand Strategy — the product of a military strategist, a policy strategist and a sustainable business strategist — details America’s path forward. It tells stories from the trenches — about the farmers, mayors, entrepreneurs, business executives, community leaders, and countless others who are finding their way — and weaves through this narrative the story of how a new business plan for America connects with America’s history, its economic success, and its role in the global community in the 21st century.